Bold and Beautiful Skies - A 7 Days Watercolor Challenge

1. Welcome to the Class: Have you ever observed the sky carefully? If yes, you might have observed some beautiful color combinations happening up there. Water colors is a versatile medium in which you will find unpredictable outputs. And I personally love the vibrant colors. In this class, we are going to paint seven beautiful, bold, and beautiful skies using the medium of watercolors. Also, it is going to be a seven days watercolor challenge, which you can take one by one every single day. At the end of the class, you'll be having a collection of seven paintings which is going to be of bold and beautiful skies. Everybody, myself, Rutwick Patel, I'm a self taught independent artist and an interior designer by profession. You can find most of my artworks being displayed on Instagram. I go by the name Schrag Artisans as someone who's very much passionate about teaching, my major focus is always to create classes for beginners who are trying to develop their skills on a regular basis. We're going to start by learning about all the art supplies in detail, from the watercolor papers to the brushes that we are going to use. I'll be giving you all the details, No need to worry at all in case you're missing out on any particular art supply. You can go for any other good alternative as well. We're going to learn about the color palette that we're going to use so that you can get an exact idea of the application of the color onto the watercolor paper. The color palette will help you a lot to understand watercolors and its application in detail. Before starting with the class projects, we are going to have a beautiful practice session, which we are going to learn about all the elements and how to paint them in detail. The practice sheet will help you a lot to develop confidence. It will help you a lot to develop your hand movement from painting the background to painting all the different sell outs. The practice sheet covers it all. It would be a nice warm up. Before starting with all the class projects, we're going to learn how you have to site tape your watercolor paper that after painting. When we remove the masking tape, we get a beautiful white border. The first step is to create a beautiful abstract background which is going to be a bold sky using a color combination of two watercolors. Basically, it is going to be followed by a beautiful sill out, which covers an entire landscape. In all the seven paintings, there are going to be elements like houses, mountains, boats, rock bodies, and a beautiful sun. That basically creates an nice contrast with the abstract background all over the class is absolutely suited for beginners. Also, intermediate and advanced level artists can try it. It's a seven days art challenge. In case you are new to watercolors, the class is absolutely suited for you. I'm very happy and excited to share this class with all of you without any delay. Grab your art supplies and join me in this creative journey. 2. Art Supplies: Everybody. Now let us learn about all the art supplies that you will need for this particular class. No need to worry at all in case you're missing out on any particular art supply. You can go for any other good alternative or you will find it very easily in any nearby local art store. Let us start with the first art supply, which is a simple masking tape. It's a paper tape basically, that we're going to apply on all the four sides of the watercolor paper that at the end when we remove the masking tape, we get a nice beautiful white border. Then next up, I have five size watercolor paper from Canson. And these are basically 300 GSM watercolor papers. A GSM basically means the thickness of the paper. And you can observe my practice sheet here in case you do not want to use a, A five size watercolor paper. You can go for any other practicing art journal, or a rough scrape of paper as well. Then I have another watercolor paper of size six on which we are going to create the class projects. As you can observe right now, these are basically A six size watercolor papers and 300 GSM. The reason we are using a 300 GSM watercolor paper is so that you can apply heavy washes on it. Then I have a simple pencil that we can use to do any rough sketching work if required in the class project. Then let us talk about the most important art supply, which is the brushes. For the entire class, you will need only two brushes. One is a size two quill brush, another one is of size zero. In case you do not have a quill brush, you can go for a round brush as well. But a quill brush will give you a nice application of watercolors onto the watercolor paper. Then next up, I have black and white watercolor tubs. I was missing out on watercolor tubes, That's why I'm using watercolor tubs. Now, you will be surprised that for all the seven class predicts, we're going to use only two colors. Which are basically purple and bald blue. Using only these two colors, we are going to create a nice combination of bold and beautiful skies. Then next up, I have a simple color palette. You can already observe the colors splattering around. Just try to have a color palette in which you can take multiple colors together and you have a nice space for mixing them up. The next up I have a simple tissue paper which will be really helpful to remove axis amount of water or color in your brush. Then we have a simple glass container in which we are going to hold some clear water. It will help us a lot to clean the brushes whenever needed. Then comes the last art supply, which is not at all compulsory to have, But in case you have it, it is really good if you use it. It's a simple wooden board that you can observe right here. In case you're not having a wooden board, you can use a writing pad as well. This will help you a lot to move your painting in directions so that you can get a nice hand movement on this particular board. We are going to place the watercolor paper and the masking tape. These are all the art supplies that you will need for this particular class. No need to worry at all in case you're missing out on any particular art supply. You can go for any other good alternative or you'll find it very easily in any nearby local art store. Now let us move towards the next part. 3. Color Palette: Everybody, before we start with the class projects, let us understand the color palette in detail so that you can get an exact idea of how we are going to paint a beautiful, bold sky. If you observe all the seven paintings carefully, you will observe that we have a beautiful abstract background. Here, I have a simple sketchbook with all the labelings of the colors and the combinations that we are going to create. In case you do not have a practicing journal or a sketchbook, you can use a rough scrape of paper as well. Apart from black and white color, we're going to use only two watercolors, which is going to be purple and bal blue. In case you want to select a different color combination, that is absolutely fine. You're free to experiment and explore. Now in this particular sketchbook, if you observe carefully, I have labeled the purple color. Now to know its exact saturation of the color, I'll be using my quill brush of size zero. And we're going to take the darkest tone, which is the exact shade of the color that we take out from the potter color tube. Just take a little bit of water and make a good consistency of water and color together. Apply a simple patch of the color. This is the exact shade of the color. Now, in order to decrease the saturation of the color, you have to slowly add a little bit of water to have less amount of color. You will observe that the saturation of the color will slowly decrease. Right now, you can observe the way I'm adding a little bit of water slowly, the saturation of the color is getting decreased from the first purple color. You can compare it with the last patch that we have applied. Similarly, we are going to use the same steps and we're going to learn about cobal blue as well. Just apply the darkest shade of cobal blue, making a good composition of water and color together. And slowly add a little bit of water into your brush, and you will observe the decrease in the saturation. Now you must be wondering why we are doing this particular step. This will help you to understand the application of the water color onto the watercolor paper. Right now, the colors are wet. Once it dries, the saturation of the color will definitely decrease. This will help you a lot to understand the color palette in detail. Now, if you observe the first color combination, I have taken some purple and then cobalblue, it's a combination of purple and cobalblue. Similarly, you can create another combination of cobal, blue and purple together having a difference in sequence. Now, if you want to use both the colors using black together, you can do that as well. Right now, I have applied a nice patch of black. And you can use cobalblue together. You can also use purple. There are a lot of possibilities to create a lot of combination of colors together to paint some bold skies. Now in the bottom portion, I'll show you how the saturation of the color decreases in one go. It's a simple stroke you can observe. I have started from the left hand side, slowly moved towards the right hand side. You can see that the first portion in the left hand side is very darker than the portion in the right hand side. This is a simple stroke that we applied in one go. Similarly, I'll be showing you that in both the colors purple and bal blue. In case you find that your color is finished from the color palette, you can take a little bit of color in the color palette from the watercolor tube. And then you can make a good composition of color and water together and apply a single stroke. As you can observe, you can observe the movement of my quill brush carefully. You can observe that the saturation of the color in the left hand side is very much then the right hand side. Similarly, I'll be applying another patch for Cabal blue as well. Now once we are done with all the three patches, I have added the labelings. You can observe the color palette carefully. This will help you a lot to understand the color application on the watercolor paper. It is not at all necessary or compulsory for you to select the same colors. You can go for any other good alternative. I hope that you understood the color palette. Now let us move towards the next part. 4. Lets Practice the Elements: Everybody, before we start with all the seven class projects, let us practice all the elements and how to paint them in detail. Right now, you can observe all the seven class projects having a beautiful abstract watercolor background with all the different kinds of sill outs. No need to worry at all. All the elements are very easy and simple to create. We're going to learn about all the elements one by one. Here on my desk, you can observe a watercolor paper of size five. Here I have my masking tape. We are basically going to learn about the background. There are going to be two different types of background that we are going to create. One is going to be a background having a sky area and a water body. Another one is going to be a complete sky area. That's why I'm dividing my watercolor paper into two different parts. It's a very simple and easy step. You just have to use the masking tape. Apply it in half of the watercolor paper. Apply it on the borders. First, try to align the masking tape. Keep it parallel with the paper edges. Once you're done applying it on the borders, we are going to separate it by applying a single masking tape in between. In case you want to decrease the thickness of the masking tape, you can use a simple scissor. You can simply decrease the width of the masking tape by cutting it into half in case you want to apply the entire masking tape in between. That is also absolutely fine. Now apply a little bit of pressure using your finger so that the masking tape can get stuck to the watercolor paper in a nice way. Now in this particular class project, you can observe we have a sky area and a water body. Simply use a pencil and draw a horizontal line, which is basically a horizon line separating the sky area and the water body. Now I'll be using my Quill brush of size two. Take some clear water and apply a thin coat of water on the entire surface just above the horizon line. Now we are going to take some nice darker tone of purple. So make a good color combination of water and color together and start applying these random strokes. You can observe the movement of my quill brush. I'm using the tip of the entire quill brush. While you're moving your brush in this particular manner, just leave some white space in between because we're going to create a color combination. You can observe the purple strokes in a random way. Now take some cobal blue in the same quill brush of size two and apply it in between the remaining spaces. You can also apply it just above the horizon line and slowly move towards the above area. It's basically a step which does not require perfection, but you have to be very much careful with your brush strokes. It's a very random application of the color in this abstract manner. Also see a few white spaces in between, which gives a nice cloudy look to the entire abstract sky. Now using the same quill brush, I've taken some darker tone of bal blue. And you can observe, I have applied it in the entire pad, just below the horizon line. Now you can take some darker tone of purple and apply it just below the horizon line. You can use the tip of your quill brush to add these horizontal lines as well. Now you can compare it with the class project. We have painted the sky area and the water body. Now in this particular class project, we only have the sky area. I'm going to use my Quill brush of size two. Again, we are going to apply a thin coat of water on the entire surface. No need to hurry at all. Try to apply a thin coat of water in an even manner. Make sure that there is no space left between the masking tape and the watercolor paper. Now, using the same quill brush, make a good composition of color and water together. Start applying it from the topmost portion. And again, we'll be leaving some white spaces in between So you can observe the movement of my quill brush. It's a simple curved movement. You can also see the way my hand is moving. It has to be very much free. No need to make your hands stiff. Now, simply clean your quill brush. Take some darker tone of bal blue. Start applying it from the bottom portion. Slowly move towards the above area. You can also put in the bal blue in between the left spaces that we have kept in between the purple color as well. No need to hurry at all. Try to do this particular step in a very slow and steady manner. You can observe the way I'm using the tip of my brush and applying these little horizontal strokes. These horizontal strokes basically creates a nice abstract background in case there are white spaces in between. No need to worry about them. It looks really nice when the entire background dries. Now let us paint the elements. I'll be taking some solid black color in the color palette. I'm going to use my Quill brush of size zero. And we are going to paint the mountains just above the horizon line. No need to hurry at all. Just paint a simple horizontal line on the horizon line. Paint an outline of the entire mountain, and then fill in solid black color. No need to hurry at all. Use the tip of your quill brush to paint in difficult areas. Basically, the smaller areas. Now we have a nice landscape area just below the mountains. You can apply a horizontal line and create this abstract outline, which is basically a very natural and organic shape. You can create your own landscape area as well. Now, once you're done with the outline, you can fill in solid black color in the inner portion. To make it look a little bit more aesthetic, I'm adding these little rock bodies in between the mountains and the landscape area. Now to enhance the landscape area, you can use the tip of your quill brush and add these little horizontal lines nearby. We have few pine trees in the entire scenery. Just simply use the tip of your quill brush in case you find that your color is finished from the color palette. Take a little bit of more color. Add these vertical lines wherever you want to according to your convenience as well. And then just start applying these little strokes. And as you move towards the bottom area, simply increase the size of the strokes that you're making. This will create a beautiful pine tree. It's a very simple and easy technique to paint pine trees. Similarly, I'll be painting the last tree as well. You can observe using minimal brush strokes and some basic landscape elements, we have created a nice scenery. Now similarly, let us paint few more elements in the second background as well. We are going to use the same solid black color from the color palette. Try to make a good composition of solid black color and water together. Make sure that you do not have more water in your color palette. It will decrease the saturation of solid black color. Now on the top right corner, if you observe carefully, I'm starting by creating this nice organic outline, which is basically the plants that is coming inside the entire scenery. We are creating the outline first and then we are going to fill in solid black color in the inner portion. It's a very simple and easy technique. In fact, as you all know that plants generally have a very natural and organic shape in case you want to create your own composition of the plants coming inside the entire scenery. That is also absolutely fine. You can observe that once I'm done with the outline, I can also enhance it using the tip of my Quill brush in case you find that your color is getting finished from the brush, you can definitely take some more color from the color palette. You'll get an idea if your brush moves a little bit rough on the entire watercolor surface. Now I'm going to add a beautiful house in the bottom portion. Before that, I've added a little bit of plantation on the left hand side as well, using the same steps to create the outline for the house. First I have painted two slant lines and you just have to paint the walls on either sides. Once you're done with the walls, you can connect it with the plants in the left hand side and a simple wall area. Once you're done with the entire outline, just fill in solid black color in the entire portion. No need to hurry at all. Try to paint it in a very slow and steady manner. Use the tip of your brush to paint in smaller areas. Also, in case you find that you have axis amount of water in your brush, you can definitely dab it onto the tissue paper, it will remove axis amount of water. Now we are going to have a simple street lamp on the left hand side. You can add a vertical line and a slant line. Then I'm going to paint a beautiful chimney on one of the roofs. And we're going to add a simple pine tree. It's a simple technique, just draw a vertical line. Start applying these little strokes from the top portion slowly. As you move towards the bottom area, increase the size of the strokes. We are done with all the elements using solid black color. Now I'll be using solid white color in the same brush of size zero. It's a quill brush basically. And take some good amount of solid white color paint. A beautiful sun, or you can also consider it as a moon that is absolutely fine. And then you have to draw this circular shape. I'll be using the tip of my quill brush to get a nice reflection effect onto the water body as well, creating these little horizontal lines. Now in the street lamp, you can add a little bit of white color and paint a beautiful sun in this particular scenery as well. By drawing a simple circular shape, you can enhance the chimney. You can add these square shapes in a set of Ford to create a nice window element in the entire house as well. You can observe the contrast of white and black color with the entire abstract background. Now let us remove the masking tape so that we can get a proper edge. This is the reason of applying the masking tape, so that we get a nice white border for all the class projects as well. No need to hurry at all. Try to remove the masking tape in an angle so that you do not end up tearing your beautiful painting. Now, I'll be removing the last tape as well, and you can observe how slowly I'm trying to remove it. You can observe. We are done with both the abstract backgrounds, the sky area and the water body. And it's a very simple and easy technique. Now let us paint the sill outs. In this particular class project, you can observe these beautiful mountains and rock bodies. Let us start with that. First, I'll be using my quill brush of size zero only. I'll be making a good composition of water and color together. Make sure that you do not have axis amount of water that will decrease the saturation of solid black color. In the practice sheet, you can observe I have started by drawing a simple horizontal line. And the way I'm using the tip of my quill brush, you just have to apply least pressure on it. Now you can observe that I'm creating the outline first. As you all know that mountains generally have a very natural and organic shape. There isn't any specific way of painting them. You can create your own composition. You can play with the shape and size of the rock bodies as well. You can observe that I have created the entire outline first. Now, once you're done with the outline, use the same brush and fill in solid black color in the entire portion. No need to hurry at all. Make sure that there is no space left in between. In case you have axis amount of water in your brush, you can simply dab your brush to the tissue paper. It will remove axis amount of water and you'll get a nice saturation of solid black color. You can also observe the way I'm using the tip of my Quill brush to paint in smaller areas. In case you find that your color is getting finished from the brush, you can definitely take some more color from the color palette. This is a simple technique to paint some beautiful mountains and rock bodies. Now if you observe this particular class project carefully, we have a beautiful fence element that we're going to learn. Again, I'll be taking my same quill brush of size zero. Start by applying a simple horizontal line, now in order to make it a little bit thick, I'll be applying another same horizontal stroke. And apply a little bit of pressure that you get a nice thick line in the bottom portion. Similarly, apply another horizontal line, but this time leave a little bit of space in between both the lines. Now we're going to add vertical lines. Try to have a little bit of distance between these vertical lines. You can also observe it in the class project, we have these vertical lines a little bit thicker. Then in between, we are going to paint thin vertical lines as well. Once we are done with the thick vertical lines, again, take some good amount of color in your quill brush and apply least pressure. Use the tip of your quill brush and add these vertical lines in between the thicker vertical lines. This basically creates some nice aesthetics in the entire fence. And the fence looks a little bit more attractive. No need to hurry at all. Try to keep a very free and calm hand. Also, you can observe the movement of Micol brush. Now as you can observe, we have painted the entire sellout for the fence in this particular class project. Now let us move towards another element. Now in this particular class project, you can observe some nice bushes and plants. In the bottom portion, we are going to paint this particular sill out. I'll be taking some good amount of solid black color from the color palette. Again, add a little bit of water in case you find your color is a little bit stiff in the color palette. Again, we are going to start by applying a horizontal line in the bottom portion using the tip of the quill brush. Now once you're done with the horizontal line, you can observe I have drawn two vertical lines. And slowly add these little strokes combining together, forming a very organic and natural outline. No need to hurry at all, just apply these little strokes. And you can observe that I'm using the tip of my quill brush. Now, once we are done creating the entire outline, we are going to use the entire surface of the brush and apply solid black color in the entire inner portion. No need to hurry at all. Make sure that there is no space left between the solid black color. It will not look nice when the entire color dries, so you can observe the entire plant body on the bottom portion. Now we have few bushes which are apart from the entire plant body. Again, it's a very simple and easy technique. You have to create this natural organic outline using the tip of your quill brush and create a bushy shape. Again, plants generally have a very natural and organic shape. You can create your own composition as well. Now once you're done with the bush, just simply use the tip and connect the branches with the plantation in the bottom portion, this is how you have to create the entire plantation for the class projects. Now if you observe this particular class project placed in the right hand side, we have some beautiful palm trees. It's a very simple and easy technique. You have to apply very less pressure on your quill brush. Use the tip of your quill brush and create these leaves on the entire circular format and connect it with one single leave. You can observe that we have painted all the leaves. Now you have to enhance the beauty of the entire palm tree. Just use the tip of your quill brush. Add these little strokes, which basically enhances the entire leaf. No need to hurry at all and try to keep your hand very much loose and calm while you're painting these minute elements. Now, once you're done with the leaves, you have to connect it to the entire trunk. You just have to create a vertical line which is in an angle, simply apply a little bit of pressure. Start connecting the entire trunk with the leaves that we have painted on the topmost portion. We are done with the entire palm tree. You can play with the shape, size, and the angle of the entire trunk. It is absolutely fine. Now in this particular class project, in the right side, you can observe a beautiful tree trunk. It's a very simple and easy technique. You can create the outline of the entire trunk using the tip of your quill brush once and then you can fill in solid black color in the inner portion. It's a simple Y shape if you observe carefully, then once you're done with the outline, you can apply the solid black color in the inner portion. No need to hurry at all. Try to apply the color in a slow and steady manner. Make sure that there is no space left in between the solid black color. You can add few more branches using the tip of your quill brush, applying very less pressure. We are done with the entire practice sheet. I have labeled all the elements in detail. You can have a look carefully. The practice sheet will help you a lot to develop confidence while painting, and the chances of making mistakes will be very less. The entire practice session will be like a warm up for you. Before starting with all the class projects, I hope that you got an exact idea of how we are going to paint all the elements in detail. Now let us move towards the next part. 5. Lets Tape the Paper: Everybody. Before we start with the class projects, let us learn how to tape the watercolor paper using a simple masking tape. You can observe all the seven class projects and there's a beautiful white border if you observe carefully before we start painting, we apply the masking tape on the outline of the entire paper. And once we remove the entire masking tape, we get this beautiful white border. If you observe the watercolor papers carefully, it is 300 GSM and the size is six. This can be considered as a mini watercolor painting. Now you can simply place the watercolor paper wherever you find it comfortable. I'm placing it on a wooden board so that I can move it in whichever direction I'm comfortable painting in. You can use a writing pad or a desk surface as well. Once you have placed your watercolor paper, now take a piece out of your masking tape and then simply apply it on the topmost portion of the watercolor paper. Try to have some portion of the masking tape onto the watercolor paper and some onto the wooden surface. Now, once you have applied the masking tape, apply a little bit of pressure using your finger or thumb so that the masking tape can get completely stuck to the entire surface. You can make sure that your masking tape is parallel with the paper edge, so that when we remove the entire masking tape, we get a nice parallel white border. I have applied the last masking tape on the bottom portion as well. You can observe that we have applied the masking tape on all the four sides. And you can easily move the wooden board so that you can paint in a comfortable position. Now let us move towards the next part. 6. Painting 1 - Pine Trees: Hey buddy, You're most welcome to the first painting, which is pine trees. As you can observe, I'm ready with my watercolor paper with the masking tape on all the four sides. All the art supplies are placed nearby. I'll be using a simple pencil and we're going to draw a horizontal line. It's basically a horizon line which separates the sky area and the water body. Right now, you can observe that the color palette is completely clean. We're going to take some purple color. Similarly, we are going to take some bal blue as well. Always try to take water colors in a required amount only. No need to waste the resources. In case the color get finished, we can take some more color. Again, I'll be taking my Quill brush of size two and we're going to apply a thin coat of water just above the horizon line. No need to hurry at all. Try to apply an even coat of water and make sure that there is no space left between the masking tape and the watercolor paper. This is basically known as a wet on wet technique, in which we apply a thin coat of water. Initially, when we are going to apply the water colors, it will blend in a very nice way. Now I'll be taking a little bit of water and we are going to make a good composition of purple color and water together. Try to get a nice consistency of color and water together. And you can observe that I have made a nice random stroke starting from the topmost portion. And we have also left some white space in between. No need to worry about the white spaces, We are going to cover it with cobaldblue. Now simply clean your quill brush and we are going to take some nice darker tone of cobalblue. Again, you have to make a good consistency of water and color together. Start applying it just above the horizon line and you will slowly observe a nice blend between the purple color and cobald blue. You can observe the movement of my brush in case there is a little bit of white space left in between. That is absolutely fine. It will look really nice. When the entire background dries, it gives a nice bold sky look and the clouds will appear in a very nice way. You can use the tip of your quill brush to add these little horizontal strokes in between as well. In case you find that there is axis amount of water in your brush, you can definitely dab your brush to the tissue paper, it will remove axis amount of water. We are done with the entire sky and as you can see, it's a very simple and easy step. Now let the background dry for a while and let us paint the water body. I'll be again applying a thin coat of water just below the horizon line this time. Now once we are done applying a thin coat of water, we are going to take some nice darker tone of purple. Make a good consistency of water and color together. No need to hurry at all. Take your time and just apply a nice horizontal stroke just below the horizon line. And slowly move towards the bottom area. Make sure that there is no space left between the masking tape and the water color paper because it will not look nice when we remove the masking tape. Now just below the horizon line, you can start applying these horizontal strokes to make the entire water body look a little bit more aesthetic. I'll be taking some darker tone of cobald blue and you can start applying it from the bottom portion slowly. You can move towards the above area. These little horizontal stroke basically represents some nice waves in the entire water body and it looks really amazing when the entire color dries up. There isn't any specific way of applying them. You can just apply the horizontal strokes in a random format. We are done with the sky area and the water body. Let the background dry for a while. Now I'll be taking my Quill brush of size zero and just simply take some darker tone of solid black color in the color palette. Again, we are going to make a good consistency of water and color together. In case you find that your brush is having a lot of water, you can dab it onto the tissue paper, that axis amount of water will be removed. We're going to start by painting some beautiful mountains just above the horizon line. You can observe carefully that I'll be using the tip of my quill brush, applying very less pressure on it. Simply paint a horizontal line on the horizon line. We're going to create the outline of the entire mountain. First, you can observe that I'm using the tip of my quill brush creating this nice organic, natural outline. Mountains generally are having a very organic shape. There isn't any specific way of painting them. You can create your own composition as well. It is absolutely fine. I've started from the left hand side, slowly moved towards the right hand side. The mountain in the right hand side is a little bit bigger. You can observe the variation and you can fill in solid black color in the entire inner portion. No need to hurry at all. Try to paint it in a very slow and steady manner. Make sure that there is no space left while you're applying a solid black color. Now I'll be painting a nice landscape area just below the mountain body. Just leave a little bit of space. Draw a simple horizontal line just below that. You can create a nice variation for the entire island. Then you can fill in solid black color in the entire inner portion, you'll observe a nice variation in the entire landscape area as well. Similarly, we can create a nice rock body in between the mountains and the. Landscape area. So you just have to create these little rock bodies in between the mountains and the landscape area by just applying these small black patches. No need to hurry at all. So here's a very easy and simple technique. Have to apply very less pressure on your brush. And use the tip of your brush to paint this smaller portion wherever you want to. Also, in case you find that there is a lot of water in your brush, you can dab your brush to the tissue paper. It will remove a lot of water from the brush and you'll have a nice saturation of solid black color. I'll be adding a little bit of landscape area in the bottom portion as well. Just apply a very random and organic outline and fill in solid black color in the entire inner portion. Just make sure that you do not leave any space between the watercolor paper and the masking tape. Now to enhance the landscape area and make it look a little bit more aesthetic, you can use the tip of your quill brush and add the thin line just below the landscape area. It basically creates a nice depth in the entire landscape area and it looks a little bit more aesthetic. You can already observe a beautiful contrast with the solid black color and the background that we have created. We are done painting the mountains and the landscape area. Now let us move to the next element, which is painting some beautiful pine trees. I'll be using my quill brush of size zero only. And we are going to paint these vertical lines, which basically represents the position of the pine trees. In case you want to experiment and explore and create your own scenery, you can decide the position of the pine trees according to your convenience as well. Once you're done adding the vertical lines, you just have to create these little strokes. Starting from the topmost portion, we are going to move towards the bottom area. As you move towards the bottom area, slowly increase the size of the strokes that you're making. It's a very simple and easy technique of painting. Pine trees, you just have to observe the hand movement and just apply very less pressure on your brush. In case you find that there is axis amount of water in your brush, just simply dab your brush to the tissue paper so that axis amount of water will be removed. Now, similarly, we'll be adding these little strokes to the smaller pine trees as well. One pine tree I have on the right hand side, and we have one pine tree on the left hand side in case you're not that much confident enough to paint the pine trees directly towards your final painting and you do not want to spoil your beautiful abstract background. What you can do is you can practice it on a rough scrape of paper initially, and then you can come towards your final painting. This will help you a lot to develop confidence and improvise your hand movement and the chances of making mistakes will be also very less Trust me, this is one of the most satisfying part of painting pine trees because it's a very easy and simple technique. You can observe that I'm painting the last pine tree. We have created a nice combination of landscape area, mountains, rock bodies, and pine trees together completing an entire scenery which is very minimal. Now I'll be cleaning my quill brush of size zero and we're going to take solid white color. This time you can take some nice amount of solid white color in your quill brush. Add a little bit of water to make the color a little bit loose. And we are going to paint a beautiful sun in the sky area. You can also consider it as a moon. That is absolutely fine. I'll be using the tip of my quill brush applying very less pressure on it. And you just have to paint a circular shape. No need to hurry at all. Take your time and paint a nice circular shape in the sky area. You can also observe a nice contrast of solid white color and the background. Now to create the sun's reflection, you can just add these little horizontal strokes in the water body. Slowly, You can decrease the size of the horizontal strokes. No need to hurry at all. Try to paint it in a slow and steady manner so we are done with the entire painting. Let us remove the masking tape, which is one of the most satisfying part. No need to hurry at all. Just remove the masking tape in an angle so that you do not end up tearing your beautiful painting. You can observe her solid white border, which comes when we remove the entire masking tape, and that is the reason of applying the entire masking tape. Let me take you a little bit closer so that you can observe the entire painting carefully. I hope that you enjoyed this particular painting and got to learn something new using minimal elements. We have painted a simple and elegant painting, now let us move towards the next painting. 7. Painting 2 - Palm Trees: Hey everybody. You're most welcome to the second painting, which is palm trees. As you can observe, I'm ready with my watercolor paper with the masking tape on all the four sides. And I'll be using my Quill brush of size two. We're going to apply a thin coat of water on the entire surface. We are not having a water body this time, so we are not painting a horizon line this time. No need to hurry at all. Just apply an even coat of water. Make sure that there is no space left between the masking tape and the watercolor paper. Now I'll be using my same quill brush of size two. And we're going to take a nice darker value of Cobal Blue. Make a good composition of water and color together and start applying it from the topmost portion. No need to hurry at all. It's a very simple and easy step. While you're moving towards the bottom area, leave some white spaces in between. It will create a nice cloud effect in the entire bold sky. No need to worry about perfection. You just have to apply it in a very random and natural way. You just have to leave some white spaces in between. Now, once we are done applying cobal blue, just simply clean your quill brush and we are going to take some darker tone of purple. Again, make a good composition of water and color together. Slowly start applying it from the bottom portion and move towards the above area. You will observe a nice blend of both the colors together. And this is the reason of applying a thin coat of water initially, which is basically known as a wet on wet technique. Now slowly you can apply these horizontal strokes in between to create a nice cloud effect. You can observe a nice gradient effect of cobal, blue and purple together, starting from the topmost portion till the bottom area. You can observe the hand movement. And you can simply apply these horizontal strokes in a random way. In case you find that there is axis amount of water in your brush, just simply dab your brush to the tissue paper, it will remove axis amount of water and you'll get a nice saturation of color. We are done painting the entire sky area, let it dry for a while. Now I'll be taking my Quill brush of size zero and we're going to take some solid black color in the color palette. No need to hurry at all. Make a good composition of color and water together. Try to have more color and less water so that you can get a nice saturation of solid black color. And we're going to paint some beautiful plants in the bottom area. It's a very simple and easy technique to paint. Some plantations, you just have to use the tip of your quill brush. Apply these little strokes and combine them together to form a nice bushy effect. Once we'll be done with the entire outline, we're going to fill in solid black color in the entire inner portion. You can carefully observe that combining these little strokes together, I'm trying to have a nice variation to create some beautiful plants. In the bottom portion, I have started from the left hand side slowly. I'm moving towards the right hand side area. Once you are done painting an organic outline, you can fill in solid black color in the entire inner portion. Just make sure that you apply a nice even coat of solid black color. Also, make sure that there is no space left between the masking tape and the watercolor paper. It will not look nice when we remove the entire masking tape. Also, you can make sure that there is no space left between the solid black color. While you're painting, you can use the tip of your quill brush to enhance the entire organic outline. As you all know that plants generally have a very organic and natural shape. You can create your own composition as well. It is absolutely fine. We are almost done painting the entire plantation in the bottom area. Now let us paint the main element, which is the palm trees. It's a very simple and easy technique. You just have to observe these steps carefully. We are going to paint the leaves of the entire palm tree first. You can observe the movement of my hand. I'm just creating these little strokes, combining together and forming the entire leaf. And you have to keep the position of the leaves in a circular format so that it can complete the entire foliage of the palm tree. You can observe I have painted a leaf in between also. And we are going to connect all the leaves together and then we'll connect it to the main tree trunk. You can also observe the way I'm using the tip of my quill brush, applying very less pressure, and leaving the strokes on the outer portion. Now using the tip of my quill brush, I'll connect it with the leaf that we have painted in the center portion. No need to hurry at all. Try to paint it in a very slow and steady manner. Also, no need to worry about painting it in the exact same way I have painted. Now applying some pressure in the quill brush, I have just connected the entire tree trunk with the plantation that we painted in the bottom area. As you can observe, using minimal steps and some basic painting techniques, we have painted a beautiful sell out for a palm tree. Similarly, we are going to add another palm tree which is going to be on the right hand side and it is going to be a little bit smaller than the first one. The steps and method are absolutely same. You just have to create the leaves in a circular format and then you have to connect all the leaves together in case you are not that much confident enough to paint the palm tree directly towards your final painting. What you can do is you can practice it on a rough scrape of paper initially, and then you can come towards your final painting. It will help you a lot to develop confidence and the chances of making mistakes will be very less. Now you can observe I have connected the second palm tree also with the plantation in the bottom area. You can apply a little bit of more strokes to make the tree trunk a little bit thicker. You can also observe a beautiful contrast of both the trees with the background that we have painted. Now we are going to paint some bushes which are going to be connected with the plantation in the bottom area. The steps are very easy and simple. You just have to apply these little strokes combining together, forming an organic outline for a bush. Then you have to fill in solid black color in the inner portion. No need to hurry at all. Try to paint it in a slow and steady manner. Use the tip of your quill brush and apply very less pressure on it in case you find that there is axis amount of water in your brush. You can dab the brush to the tissue paper so that axis amount of water will be removed. You can use the tip of your quill brush carefully and connect these branches with the plantation in the bottom area. To make the plantation look a little bit more aesthetic, you can add another small bush just beside the first one, but it is a little bit smaller than the first one. Also, in case you want to create your own composition of the plantations, that is also absolutely fine. Now you can observe a beautiful combination of both the palm trees, a plantation in the bottom area, and the bushes that we have painted. Now we're going to add another element, which is a tree element which is coming in the entire scenery. We are not going to paint an entire tree, but it's bushes that are going to come in the entire scenery. We are adding this element on the top left corner. You just have to take some good amount of solid black color from the color palette. Make a good composition of color and water together. Make sure that you have less amount of water so that you have a nice saturated black color. You can observe that using the tip of my quill brush and adding these little strokes combining together, forming an organic outline for the plantation that is on the topmost portion. Then I have fill in solid black color in the entire inner portion. Just make sure that there is no space left between the masking tape and the watercolor paper. It will not look nice when we remove the entire masking tape. You can play with the composition of the entire bush as well. It is absolutely fine. No need to worry about painting it in the exact same way I have painted. You can decide the location of the bushes, you can play with the shape and sizes as well. Also, you can observe the contrast between the sellouts and the background color in case you want to enhance the entire bush element. You can use the tip of your quill brush carefully. You can just extend these strokes to make it look a little bit more aesthetic and appealing. Plants generally have a very natural and organic shape. There is no specific way of painting them. You can create your own composition and shape of the entire bush as well. We are done with the entire sell out element. Now I'll be taking some solid white color in my Quill brush of size zero and we're going to paint a beautiful sun. You can also consider it as a moon. That is absolutely fine. Take some good amount of solid white color in case you find that there is axis amount of water, Just dab your brush to the tissue paper. It will remove excess amount of water. And simply paint a circular shape. Apply less pressure on your brush and just simply paint a circular shape. We are done with the entire painting. Let us remove the masking tape, which is one of the most satisfying step. No need to hurry at all. Try to remove the masking tape in an angle so that you do not end up tearing your beautiful painting. While you're removing the masking tape, you can also observe a beautiful white border. We are done. Now let me take you a little bit closer so that you can observe all the details carefully. You can observe that combining minimal elements together we have created a beautiful scenery. I hope that you enjoyed creating this particular painting and got to learn something new. Now let us move towards the next painting. 8. Painting 3 - River Hills: Everybody, you're most welcome to the third painting, which is River Hills. As you can observe, I'm ready with my watercolor paper with the masking tape on all the four sides. I'll be using a simple pencil to draw a horizon line, which is basically a simple horizontal line separating the sky area and the water body. Now I'll be taking my quill brush of size two and we are going to apply a thin coat of water on the sky area. It is just above the horizon line. No need to y at all. Try to apply an even coat of water. Make sure that there is no space left between the masking tape and the watercolor paper. Now we are going to take some nice darker tone of purple color. So observe carefully in the color palette. I'll be making a good composition of water and color together. Try to have less amount of water and more color so that you get a nice darker tone of purple color. And you can observe that randomly, I have applied a nice stroke, leaving some white space in between. Since we want to create an abstract background which is going to be bold and beautiful, that's why we are applying these random strokes. You can observe the movement of my quill brush. Now just simply clean your quill brush and we're going to take some darker tone of cobalt blue. Again, try to make a good composition of water and color together. Start applying it from the topmost portion. And you can also apply it in between the white spaces that we left, even after applying the cobalblue color. In case there is white space left, it is absolutely fine. It will look really nice. When the color dries up, it gives a nice cloud effect to the entire bold sky. Similarly, you have to apply the Cobal blue color just above the horizon line, slowly move towards the above area, and you will observe a beautiful blend between both the colors. This is basically known as a wet on wet technique, in which we apply a thin coat of water initially and then color so that the colors blend in a nice way and naturally. Also, we are done with the sky area, let it dry for a while. Let us paint the water body. I'll be taking my quill brush of size two. Again, take some darker tone of purple color. Make a good composition of water and color together. Apply just below the horizon line. No need to hurry at all. Use the tip of your quill Brush carefully, just near the horizon line and slowly cover the entire area. Make sure that you do not leave any space between the masking tape and the watercolor paper. Now we are going to take some darker tone of cobalt blue. So clean your quill brush and apply it just on the bottom portion. Slowly move towards the above area. You will observe a beautiful blend between both the colors. Don't worry about the random horizontal strokes. It looks really nice and gives a nice wave effect to the entire water body. You can observe that I'm applying the horizontal strokes in a very random way. Only we are done with the water body as well. Let the background dry for a while. Now we are going to use our Quill brush of size zero in the color palette. I'm going to take some solid black color. We're going to start by painting some mountains just above the horizon line. Mountains generally have a very natural and organic shape. There is no specific way of painting. Then you can create your own composition as well. You can initially start by creating the outline of the entire mountain using the tip of your quill brush, and then you can fill in solid black color in the entire portion. No need to hurry at all. Try to paint it in a slow and steady manner. Make sure that you do not leave any space between the solid black color, also in the left hand portion. Make sure that you do not leave any space between the masking tape and the water color that we are applying right now. Similarly, we can add few more hills connecting to the first mountain that we have painted. Now let us create some nice variation. Also, I'll be creating another mountain. I'm starting with the outline first so you can observe it's a very random and natural shape. We are leaving some space in between so you can create this nice shape in between. Also, once you're done with the entire outline, you can fill in solid black color in the entire portion. I have added one more mountain on the right hand side which is a little bit bigger than the first one. Now once you're done with the entire outline, you can fill in solid black color in the inner portion. Here's a very easy and simple technique to paint in smaller areas. You have to use the tip of your quelvra and apply very less pressure on it so that you get a nice grip on your hand to paint in such smaller areas you do not move outside the outline. Now similarly, I'll be adding solid black color in the mountain that we have painted on the right hand side as well. Make sure that you do not leave any space between the masking tape and the watercolor paper. Now to create some nice depth and details to the entire mountain bodies that we have painted, you're going to create its reflection effect. You just have to create these little horizontal strokes and you will observe that the strokes are getting vanished. As we move towards the bottom area apply very less pressure, and slowly as you move towards the bottom area, just decrease the size of the horizontal strokes that you're making. This will help us a lot to develop some nice depth and detail to the entire mountain body. This particular step requires a lot of patience. And your hand should be very much free and lose so that you do not get a very solid stroke. We have to create a Nie reflection effect, so it has to be blood. You can observe as I'm moving towards the bottom area, I'm decreasing the size of the horizontal stroke as well. In case you find that there is axis amount of water in your brush, you can dab it onto the tissue paper so that axis amount of water will be removed. Now we're going to add few more rock bodies in the entire water body area. As you can observe, I'm creating a very random and natural outline. First of the entire rock body. Then I'll be filling in solid black color in the inner portion. Similarly, we are going to repeat the same steps, but we are going to create the outline in a very different way. You can play with the shape, size, and composition of the entire rocks together as well. It is not at all compulsory for you to paint it in the exact same way I'm painting right now. Also in case you are not that much confident enough to paint the rock bodies directly towards your final painting and you do not want to spoil your beautiful abstract background. What you can do is you can practice it on a rough scrape of paper initially, and then you can come towards your final painting. This will help you a lot to develop confidence and the chances of making mistakes will be very less. You can observe that we have created a nice cluster of solid black rocks in the bottom portion as well. Similarly, you can add few more rock bodies near the mountains that we have painted on the left hand side, you can observe it's a very simple and easy technique of creating these small black patches. Just make sure that you apply very less pressure on your brush and your hand should be very much free and lose. In case you find that there is axis amount of water in your brush, you can simply dab your brush to the tissue paper. Also, in case you find that the color is getting finished from your brush, you can take some more color from the color palette. It is absolutely fine. Slowly, we have added a lot of rock bodies into the entire water body area. Now in the bottom portion, we have a little bit of bigger rocks. We can create a nice wave effect by adding these little strokes around you. Just have to use the tip of your quill brush and add these little strokes around the rock body, which creates some nice shadow and depth to the water body as well. The painting looks a little bit more aesthetic and attractive. You can observe that I'm just randomly adding these little strokes around. No need to hurry at all. Try to paint these little strokes in a very slow and steady manner. Also, in case you are not that much confident enough to apply the reflection effect and these little strokes towards your final painting directly. And you do not want to spoil your beautiful background. What you can do is you can practice it on a rough scrape of paper initially, and then you can come towards your final painting. It will help your lot to develop your hand movement and the chances of making mistakes will be very less. Similarly, you can add few more reflection effect to the smaller rock bodies as well. We are almost done painting the entire sill outs for this particular painting. Now let us move towards the next element, which is painting a beautiful Sun. I'll be taking some solid white color. I'll be using my same quill brush of size zero. Take some good amount of solid white color in it and just paint a circular shape. You can decide the position of the sun or in fact you want to consider it as a moon. That is also absolutely fine. You can decide its position according to your convenience. Just simply paint a beautiful circular shape. Take your time and paint it in a slow and steady manner. Now to create its reflection effect onto the water body, just simply paint these horizontal strokes, starting from the horizon line, slowly moving towards the bottom area. As you move towards the bottom area, you can slowly decrease the size of the horizontal strokes that you're making. No need to hurry at all. Try to paint it in a very slow and steady manner. Apply very less pressure on your quill brush so that you can get a random stroke as well. Now to enhance the mountains, you can add these little white, solid strokes on the outline of the mountains that we have painted, so that it can get a nice contrast, and the mountains can get a little bit more aesthetic and appealing. No need to hurry at all. Do this particular step in a very slow and steady manner. Use the tip of your quill brush carefully and we are done with the entire painting. Now let us remove the masking tape. No need to hurry at all. Try to remove the masking tape in an angle so that you do not end up tearing your beautiful painting. Also, it is one of the most satisfying part. Once we are done removing the masking tape, you can observe a beautiful solid white border, which makes the entire painting look a little bit more aesthetic. Let me take you a little bit closer so that you can observe all the details carefully. You can observe that combining minimal elements together, we have formed a beautiful scenery. I hope that you enjoyed creating this particular painting. Now let us move towards the next painting. 9. Painting 4 - Tree Trunk: Hey buddy, you're most welcome to the fourth painting which is tree trunk. As you can observe, I'm ready with my watercolor paper and the masking tape on all the four sides. I'll be using my quill brush of size two and we're going to apply a thin coat of water on the entire surface of the watercolor paper. No need to hurry at all. Try to apply an even coat of water and make sure that there is no space left between the masking tape and the watercolor paper. The reason behind applying a thin coat of water initially is so that the colors can blend in a very natural way. We are going to take some darker tone of purple, try to make a good composition of water and color together. No need to hurry at all, mix the colors. Well, now we are starting from the topmost portion, and you can observe the movement of my quill brush. No need to hurry at all and leave some white spaces in between that will look really nice. When the color dries up, it gives a nice cloud effect. Slowly, we will move towards the bottom area. Now just simply clean your quill brush and we are going to take some darker tone of cobaldblue. Again, make a nice composition of water and color together. In case you find that there is axis amount of water in your brush, just simply dab your brush to the tissue paper, it will remove axis amount of water. Now start applying the cobald blue just below the purple color. And slowly complete the entire area. In the bottom portion, you can observe the random strokes that I'm making in between the purple color as well, This basically creates a nice abstract cloud effect. No need to hurry at all. Try to observe the hand movement and do it very slowly and in a steady manner. You can observe a beautiful blend between both the colors. You can use the tip of the quill brush to add these little strokes in between. Also, make sure that you do not leave any space between the masking tape and the watercolor paper. Now, let the background dry for a while. And I'll be taking my quill brush of size zero. And we're going to take some solid black color in it. Make a good composition of water and solid black color together. Try to have less amount of water and more color. Now we are going to paint some plantation in the bottom area. It's a very simple and easy technique. You just have to use the tip of your quill brush. Add these little strokes and combine them together to form a nice bushy plantation in the bottom area. Plants generally have a very natural and organic shape. There isn't any specific way of painting them. You can create your own composition and an organic outline according to your convenience as well. I started from the left hand side, slowly moved towards the right hand side, and you can observe a beautiful organic outline. Now once you're done with the entire outline, you can fill in solid black color in the inner portion in case you find that your color is getting finished from the brush, you can take some more color from the color palette. You can observe the way I'm applying my brush strokes to apply solid black color in the remaining portion. Just make sure that you do not leave any space between the masking tape and the watercolor paper. That will not look nice when we remove the entire masking tape, Try to fill in solid black color in a slow and steady manner, and do not leave any space in between. We are done with the entire plantation. Now let us paint some beautiful tree trunk. I'm going to use the tip of my quill brush and we're going to create the outline first. Now, if you might have observed a tree trunk, it's a very natural and random shape of the branches of a tree. Forming and combining together, we are creating basically the outline of the entire trunk first. No need to hurry at all, Just use the tip of your quill brush. Apply very less pressure on it and just create the outline first. Then slowly you can fill in solid black color in the inner portion. Make sure that you have more amount of color in your brush and less water because it will decrease the saturation of your solid black color. In case you find that there is axis amount of water in your brush, you can simply dab your brush to the tissue paper. It will remove the axis amount of water in your brush. You can already observe a beautiful contrast of the entire trunk and the plantation with the beautiful background that we have painted now. Similarly, we are going to add one more tree trunk just beside the first one. You can add the little branches connecting to the main branch as well. In case you want to have a thin branch, you have to apply less pressure on your quill brush. In case you want to have a bigger branch, apply a little bit of more pressure to make the stroke a little bit thicker, you can observe that. Similarly, I'm adding one more tree trunk on the left hand side slowly in order to make it a little bit thicker. You can add few more strokes in case you're not that much confident enough to paint the tree trunk directly towards your final painting and you do not want to spoil your beautiful sky area that you have painted. What you can do is you can practice it on a rough scrape of paper initially, and then you can come towards your final painting. This will help your lot to develop your hand movement and the chance of making mistakes will be very less. You can give some nice finishing and details using the tip of your quill brush in the outline area as well. You can connect a few more thin branches to the main tree trunk. Also, in case you want to create your own composition of the tree trunk, Deciding the position and the shape and size, that is also absolutely fine. Now we are creating few bushes just above the plantation that we painted. You just have to use the tip of your quill brush, create a natural organic outline, making these little strokes combined together. Then you can add thin branches connecting them with the main plantation in the bottom area. No need to hurry at all. Try to paint it in a very slow and steady manner. Take your time and paint it with a lot of patience. Now, once we have painted a beautiful bush, we're going to add another tree trunk which is going to have a nice variation in the shape you can observe. I've started with a beautiful outline. You can make the main trunk a little bit thicker by adding few more strokes. You can make sure that while you're painting the tree trunk and connecting the branches together, try to paint it in a very slow and steady manner. Take your time and try to paint it with patients. No need to worry about painting it in the exact same way I have painted or in case your strokes are not in the exact same way I'm creating right now, it is absolutely fine. Trees generally have a very natural and organic shape. You can create your own composition as well. We have connected few branches which are getting ended up at the left hand side portion. You can add few more branches which are very thin, so you can just apply very less pressure and make these little thin branches. You can also observe a beautiful composition of the tree trunks, the bushes and the plantation that we have painted in the bottom area. In case you want to increase the number of branches that are connected together. That is also absolutely fine. You can observe that I'm adding few more strokes in between the main branch. And it's a very easy and simple technique. You just have to use the tip of your quill brush carefully. Now we are going to paint a beautiful sun, or also you can consider it as a moon. That is absolutely fine. Take some solid white color in your quill brush of size zero and just paint a circular shape. You can decide the position of the sun according to your convenience as well. Also, you can observe a beautiful contrast of the sun and the background color. No need to hurry at all. Try to paint it in a very slow and steady manner, and we are done with the entire painting. Now let us remove the masking tape. No need to hurry at all. Try to remove the masking tape in an angle so that you do not end up tearing your beautiful painting, and this is one of the most satisfying part. You can also observe a beautiful white border that we get after removing the masking tape. Now let me take you a little bit closer so that you can observe all the details carefully. You can observe combining minimal elements. Together, we formed a beautiful scenery. I hope that you enjoyed creating this particular painting and got to learn something new. Now let us move towards the next painting. 10. Painting 5 - The House: Everybody, you're most welcome to the fifth painting, which is the house. As you can observe, I'm ready with my watercolor paper with the masking tape on all the four sides. I'll be using my Quill brush of size two and we're going to apply a thin coat of water on the entire surface. We are not having a sky area and the water body this time. We're only going to paint the sky area. I'm applying a thin coat of water on the entire watercolor surface. Just make sure that you do not leave any space in between the water color paper and the masking tape. Now we are going to take some darker values of purple. Try to make a good composition of color and water together. Make sure that you have less amount of water. In case you find that there is axis amount of water, you can dab your brush to the tissue paper so that axis amount of water will be removed. Now I'm starting from the topmost portion and you can observe the way I'm applying these strokes. It's a very random and natural movement of the brush. So no need to worry about painting it in the exact same way I'm painting right now. While you're applying the color, you can leave some white space in between that will give you a nice cloudy effect once the entire color dries up. Now I'm going to clean my quill brush and we are going to take some nice darker tone of cobald blue. Again, make a good composition of color and water together. Now start applying the color from the bottom portion. Slowly move towards the above area, and you can observe the way both the colors blend together. You can add these little strokes in between both the colors using the tip of your quill brush. No need to hurry at all and try to paint it in a very slow and steady manner. You will observe a nice abstract sky area, which makes the entire painting look really amazing. Now we are done with the entire background, Let it dry for a while. Now I'll be taking my quill brush of size zero and we are going to take some solid black color in it. We are going to have some nice elements in the bottom area, starting from the plantation. Just apply these little strokes, combine them together, and form a beautiful organic outline. And then we are going to have a nice house fill out. I'm going to paint two slant lines combining together, forming a beautiful roof structure. You can observe the movement of my hand applying very less pressure. I have created two thin lines, and similarly, you have to paint the walls as well. Similarly, we're going to add a nice building structure on the right hand side as well, draw a simple horizontal line and a building structure which is going to be a little bit smaller than the first house. Now once we are done with the entire outline, we are going to fill in solid black color in the inner portion. No need to hurry at all. You can observe the way I'm moving my quill brush. Just use the tip of your quill brush to paint in difficult areas in case you find that your color is getting finished. From the brush, you can take some more color from the color palette and cover the entire area. You can observe we have covered the entire sill out and it gives a nice house structure with some plants in the left hand side. You can extend the roof by using the tip of your quill brush to make the house look a little bit more attractive, in case you find it a little bit difficult to paint the house and the plantation outline directly towards your final painting. A little bit difficult. You can definitely practice it on a rough scrape of paper initially, and then you can come towards your final painting. Now I'll be adding a nice pine tree in the right hand side area. Just simply draw a vertical line. Start applying these little strokes from the topmost portion, slowly move towards the bottom area by increasing the size of these little strokes that you're making. It's a very easy and simple technique of painting a pine tree also, it's a very satisfying process you can observe. We added a nice element of sell out in the entire landscape area. Now I'll be adding a nice street lamp on the left hand side. It's a very simple and easy technique. You just have to add a vertical line first. You can add multiple strokes to make it a little bit thicker. Then we're going to add a slant line on the topmost portion and a semicircular shape, which is basically the light on the topmost portion. To enhance the details in the entire street lamp, you can add these little horizontal strokes by using the tip of your quill brush. You can observe how beautiful the entire house and all the elements looks together. You can enhance the details by using the tip of your quill brush. I mean, you can give the finishing in case you find that there is any space left in between the black portion, you can apply the color again. I've added a little chimney on the right hand side roof to make the house look a little bit more attractive. Now let us add some nice plantation in the topmost portion as well. It is like basically the branches of a tree or the entire bush coming into the entire scenery. It's a very simple and easy technique. I'm just going to add these little strokes, combine them together to form a nice bush outline and then fill in solid black color in the inner portion. While you're filling in solid black color in the inner portion, just make sure that there is no space left between the masking tape and the watercolor paper. It will not look nice when we remove the masking tape. Now, as you all know that plants generally have a very natural and organic shape. There is no specific way of painting them. You don't have to worry about painting it in the exact same way I'm painting right now. You can create your own composition. You can play with the shape and sizes as well. You can also decide the position of the plantation, and you can also experiment with the entire scenery. Now I'm going to add few more bushes on the top right corner. You can observe that I'm starting by applying these random strokes. Only then we have fill in solid black color in the entire inner portion to make the entire outline look a little bit more specific and a little bit more attractive. You just have to use the tip of your quill brush carefully and just apply these little strokes. Try to do this particular step in a very slow and steady manner in case you find that your color is finished. From the brush, you can take a little bit of more color in case you do not want to decrease the saturation of the solid black color. Just dab your brush to the tissue paper so that excess amount of water will be removed and you'll be having a nice solid black color. You can observe how beautiful this black sill out creates a nice contrast with the background that we have painted. Just make sure that while you're adding these bushes into the entire scenery, you do not leave any space between the masking tape and the watercolor paper. It will not look nice when they remove the entire masking tape. We are done with the entire sell out. Now let us take some solid white color and add few more details. In the same quill brush of size zero, I have taken some good amount of solid white color and simply paint a circular shape to paint the sun. You can add a little bit of white color in the street lamp light as well. You can enhance the chimney by adding a little bit of stroke. Now to paint the windows, it's a very simple and easy technique. Apply very less pressure on the brush. Use the tip of the brush and paint a square shape. You can observe the solid white color creates an eye contrast with a solid black color. In order to make the house look a little bit more attractive, we can add few more rectangular shapes in the bottom area. You can pair it. You can make a combination of two to three strokes together. Basically, you're free to experiment. And you can experiment with the entire house structure as well. You can add details according to your convenience. Also, in case you're not that much confident enough to paint the house directly towards your final painting, what you can do is you can practice it on a rough scrape of paper initially, then you can come towards your final painting. Now I'll be taking some solid black color in the same quill brush of size zero. And we're going to add few more details. In case you find that your brush is having axis amount of water, just simply dab it onto the tissue paper. I have added a simple vertical line in the squared that we painted using white color. You can add the vertical lines on the sides as well to make a nice finishing. Similarly, I added one more horizontal line. You can observe it basically creates a nice frame structure to the entire window, and the window looks a little bit more aesthetic. You can add these vertical lines in the details also that we painted in the bottom area. Now you can observe how beautiful the entire painting looks. Now let us remove the entire masking tape from the watercolor paper. No need to hurry at all. Try to remove the masking tape in an angle so that you do not end up tearing your beautiful painting. You can observe a nice white border once I remove the entire masking tape. Now let me take you a little bit closer so that you can observe all the details carefully. You can observe how beautifully we have, combined all the minimal elements together and formed a beautiful scenery. I hope that you enjoyed creating this particular painting and got to learn something new. Now let us move towards the next painting. 11. Painting 6 - The Boats: Everybody, you're most welcome to the sixth painting, which is the boats. As you can observe, I'm ready with my watercolor paper and the masking tape on all the four sides. I'll be using a simple pencil to draw a horizon line, which is basically a simple horizontal line which separates the sky area and the water body. Let's start by painting the sky area. I'll be using my Quill brush of size two. And you just have to apply a thin coat of water on the entire surface. No need to hurry at all. Try to apply an even coat of water. Make sure that there is no space left between the masking tape and the watercolor paper. Now in the same quill brush, we are going to take some darker tone of purple, try to make a good composition of water and color together. We're going to start by applying the color from the topmost portion. Try to have more amount of color and less water. You can observe the way I'm making the strokes. In the entire watercolor paper, you can leave a little bit of white spaces in between that will look really nice. When the entire colored dries, it gives a nice cloudy effect. It's a very random and natural way of applying color. No need to worry about perfection. Now, in the same Quill brush, take some good amount of darker tone of cobaldlue, we're going to apply it just above the horizon line. You can observe that slowly, I'm moving towards the above area. No need to worry about the blend. The colors will automatically blend together because we have applied a thin coat of water initially. Now you can slowly add these little strokes by applying very less pressure and using the tip of your quill brush. This basically creates a nice abstract effect. And it gives a nice look of clouds in the entire bold sky. We are done with the entire sky area. Now let us paint a beautiful water body as well. I'll be taking some darker tone of cobol blue and we're going to apply it just below the horizon line. You can observe the movement of my quill brush. And slowly you can cover the entire area. Leave some white space in the bottom portion, and take some darker tone of purple. Now slowly blend both the colors together by moving towards the above direction. No need to worry about these random horizontal strokes. It looks really nice and creates a nice wave effect. You can add these little horizontal strokes using the tip of your quill brush as well. In case you find that there is axis amount of water in your brush, you can simply dab it onto the tissue paper to remove axis amount of water. Now I'll be using my Quill brush of size zero and we're going to paint some beautiful mountain bodies. Just apply a simple horizontal line on the horizon line and create a nice outline for a mountain body. Mountains generally have a very natural and organic shape. There isn't any specific way of painting them. You can create your own composition of the mountain as well. Once you're done with the entire outline, you have to fill in solid black color in the inner portion. No need to hurry at all. Try to paint it in a very slow and steady manner. Make sure that there is no space left in between. Also, make sure that you do not leave any space between the masking tape and the watercolor paper. Now in order to create some depth and details, we're going to add few more rock bodies and mountains. Just connect one more mountain body on the sides in case you find that your color is getting finished from the brush, you can definitely take some more color from the color palette. We are also going to add few rock bodies in the water area. You just have to create the outline. You can have variation in the shape and size of the rock bodies. And then you have to fill in solid black color in the inner portion. Now let us add two boats in the water body. You just have to create this nice shape of the entire boat, which is basically a front view. So there are going to be two boats, basically, one is going to be a little bit smaller, another one is going to be a little bit bigger in the center of the boat. You can add a vertical line to make the boat look a little bit more aesthetic. Now I'm painting the second boat which is a little bit bigger in the perspective, it's basically in the front portion. You can just increase the size of the entire boat. You can also play with the composition of the boats. You can decide the position. You can play with the shape and sizes as well. Similarly, I'll be adding the vertical line to enhance the beauty of the entire boat. No need to hurry at all. Try to paint it in a very slow and steady manner in case you find your color is getting finished. From the brush, you can take some more color from the color palette. Now to add the reflection effect of the mountain bodies, you just have to add these horizontal strokes. And as you move towards the bottom area, just simply decrease the size of the strokes that you're making. This basically creates a nice depth to the entire mountains and the rock bodies. We are adding it near the horizon line as well. These are basically simple horizontal strokes, which basically creates a nice reflection effect. Also, you can observe the movement of my hand. Try to keep your hand very much loose and free. We are similarly going to add the reflection effect of the boards onto the water body as well. You can observe the way I'm making these horizontal strokes slowly as I'm moving towards the bottom area. I'm simply decreasing the size of the horizontal strokes that I'm making. While you're doing this particular step, you have to keep a lot of patients and your hand should be very much loose and free. Now to make the boat look a little bit more aesthetic, I'm adding these vertical lines in a slant way, which is basically replicating some ropes to enhance the beauty of the boats. Basically, I'm adding a little bit of rock body in the right hand side corner. In the bottom portion as well, just create the outline first and then fill in solid black color in the inner portion in case you find painting the syllouts directly towards your final painting a little bit difficult, What you can do is you can practice it on a rough scrape of paper initially, and then you can come towards your final painting. This will help you a lot to develop confidence while painting, and the chances of making mistakes will be very less. This will also help your lot to develop your hand movement. You can observe that by applying these little black patches, we have created some nice small rock bodies to enhance the entire beauty of the scenery. And it also makes the entire painting look a little bit more aesthetic. You just have to use the tip of your quill brush and paint these little rock bodies carefully. Now I'll be taking some solid white color in the quill brush of size zero and we're going to paint a beautiful sun. Or you can also consider it as a moon. Just simply paint a circular shape. No need to hurry at all. Take your time and paint a beautiful sun and we're done with the entire painting. Now let us remove the masking tape. No need to hurry at all. Try to remove the masking tape in an angle so that you do not end up tearing your beautiful painting, and you can observe a nice white border as well. This is one of the most satisfying part of removing the masking tape. Let me take you a little bit closer so that you can observe all the details carefully. You can observe how combining minimal elements together we formed a beautiful scenery. I hope that you enjoyed creating this particular painting. Now let us move towards the next painting. 12. Painting 7 - The Fence: Everybody, you're most welcome to the seventh painting, which is the fence, as you can observe. I'm ready with my watercolor paper with the masking tape on all the four sides. I'll be using a simple pencil to draw a horizon line to suppress the sky area and the water body. I'll be using my Quill brush of size two to apply a thin coat of water. No need to hurry at all. Try to apply an even coat of water and make sure that there is no space left between the masking tape and the watercolor paper. This is basically known as a wet on wet technique, in which we apply a thin coat of water initially. And then the water colors so that the colors can blend in an ice way color palette. As you can observe, Micobal blue is a little bit finished. I'll be taking some bal blue from the watercolor tube. Make a good composition of color and water together. And start applying it from the topmost portion, leaving some white space in between. No need to hurry at all. You can observe the movement of my quill brush carefully and slowly. We'll move towards the horizon line, completing the entire sky area. You can take a little bit of darker tone using the same quill brush, and you can apply some nice strokes in between using the tip of your quill brush. No need to worry about the white spaces in between. It will give a nice abstract look and it will also create a nice cloudy effect. As you can observe, we are almost done with the entire sky area. Now let the background dry for a while. You can also add few darker tone of cobalt blue near the horizon line. Now let us paint the water body as well. I'll be applying a thin coat of water, again, just below the horizon line. No need to hurry at all. Try to apply an even coat of water and make sure that there is no space left between the masking tape and the water color paper. I'll be taking the same brush. Take some darker tone of purple from the color palette. Make a good composition of color and water together. Start applying it just below the horizon line and slowly cover the entire area. In case you find that there is axis amount of water in your brush, simply dab it onto the tissue paper so that axis amount of water will be removed. No need to worry about the random horizontal strokes. It looks really nice when it dries up. Now let us start painting the elements. So I'll be taking some solid black color in the color palette. Try to add a little bit of water and color together. Make a good consistency of water and color together. Make sure that you do not have axis amount of water. Try to have more color and less water. In case you have more amount of water in your brush, just simply dab it onto the tissue paper. So we're going to paint some bushes on the topmost area. I'll be just adding these little strokes, combine them together, and form an organic outline which basically represents some nice leaves coming into the entire scenery. As you all know that plants generally have a very natural and organic shape, There is no specific way of painting them. You can create your own natural organic outline and then fill in solid black color inside. Or you can create your own composition of the leaves as well. You can carefully observe that I started from the left hand portion slowly. I'm moving towards the right hand side area. We have painted a nice bushy element on the topmost portion. We can also increase a separate bush apart from the topmost portion. I'll be just repeating the same method. Just add these little strokes and form a beautiful outline of a plantation coming inside the entire scenery. And then you can fill in solid black color in the inner portion. In case you want to make the leaves look a little bit more attractive, you can use the tip of your quill brush and make it a little bit more aesthetic. No need to hurry at all. Try to paint it in a very slow and steady manner. Take your time and keep your hand very much loose and free while painting the bushes. Now let us add the main element which is going to be a beautiful fence. I'll be adding a horizontal line using the same quill brush of size zero to make the horizontal line a little bit thicker. You can apply multiple strokes on it, apply very less pressure, and use the tip of your quill brush. Now, once we have painted a beautiful horizontal line, we are going to create a landscape area just below that. You can simply create a nice variation of a beautiful landscape area by just increasing the size of the entire horizontal line that we painted in the middle portion. You can also create the outline first and then fill in sordid black color in the inner portion. That is also absolutely fine. Now we're going to paint a beautiful fence. So I'll be adding a thin horizontal line applying very less pressure and using the tip of micelle brush of size zero. Once I have added a nice horizontal line, we're going to add few vertical lines which is going to be in a nice pattern. Initially, we're going to add the vertical lines which are going to be a little bit thick. You can observe I'm trying to have approximately same distance between the thick vertical lines that we are painting right now. Once we are done painting the thick vertical lines, we're going to add thin vertical lines in between them. This particular step will require a lot of patience. And you have to keep your hand very much free and calm. You just have to add these thin vertical lines in between the thick vertical lines. Just try to attach the horizontal line with the landscape area that we have painted in the bottom portion by these little vertical lines. It creates a nice aesthetic to the entire painting. And the bridge looks a little bit more attractive. You can observe we are done painting the entire fence element. Now we're going to add some landscape area in the bottom portion. Also, in case you find that there is any space left in between the solid black color, you can reapply the color to make the landscape area look a little bit more in detail, in depth. You can add these little strokes just below that. Now we're going to add some more landscape area into the water body. No need to hurry at all. Just create a nice black patch, having a nice variation in shape and size. You all know that even landscape area is a very natural and organic shape that you find in nature. It is absolutely fine if you want to create your own composition of a landscape area as well, you can experiment with the entire scenery. Also, I'll be adding a nice landscape area in the bottom portion. Also, just create a beautiful outline and then fill in solid black color in the inner portion. No need to hurry at all. Try to paint it in a very slow and steady manner. Make sure that there is no space left between the watercolor paper and the masking tape. We can also add few rock bodies near the landscape area that we have painted. In the bottom portion, you just have to use the tip of your quill brush and apply very less pressure to create these little black patches in case you're not that much confident enough to apply the landscape area directly towards your final painting. What you can do is you can practice it on a rough scrape of paper initially, and then you can come towards your final painting. This will help you a lot to develop confidence while painting, and the chances of making mistakes will be very less. Now I'll be taking some solid white color in my quill brush of size zero. Just simply paint a circular shape in the sky area wherever you want to. And it is absolutely fine if you want to take it in the center portion. Also, this basically replicates a sun. You can also consider it as a moon. That is absolutely fine. Now to create its reflection effect, you have to use the same quill brush and apply these little horizontal strokes in the water body. As you move towards the bottom area, simply decrease the size of the horizontal strokes that you're making. No need to hurry at all. Try to do this particular step in a very slow and steady manner. Keep your hand very much free and lose, and we're done with the entire painting. Now let us remove the masking tape. No need to hurry at all. Try to remove the masking tape in an angle so that you do not end up tearing your beautiful painting. This is also one of the most satisfying part, and you can observe a nice wide border once we remove the entire masking tape. Let me take you a little bit closer so that you can observe all the details carefully. You can observe that using minimal elements, we created a nice painting. I hope that you enjoyed creating this particular painting and got to learn something new. Now, let us move towards the next part. 13. Class Conclusion: I personally believe that anyone can paint. Art is something that brings me a lot of peace and happiness. There are a lot of possibilities that you can explore, and the best part about art is that there are no boundaries. Watercolors is a very versatile, artistic medium that anyone can explore. While I was creating this particular class, I remember I made any number of mistakes. And that is something that I always tell my students, never to be afraid of making mistakes. Also, one thing that I always tell my students is to maintain an art journal in which you can keep a record of your artwork and practice on a regular basis. I hope that this seven days art challenge of painting bold, beautiful skies, will help you to develop a lot of confidence with watercolors. I would be very excited to see all of your class projects into the project gallery. In case you have any questions or doubts related to the class, feel free to ask them into the discussion section. It would be really great if you leave a review for the class as it encourages me and my class can reach many more students like you. I'm really very happy to share this class with all of you. I hope that from all the seven beautiful paintings, you got to learn something new and creative. The practice sheet will help you a lot to develop confidence while painting. It will also help you a lot to keep a record of your artwork at the end. I would like to say keep practicing, keep learning. Thank you so much for joining and happy painting.